"You are overlooking the fact that the brine mix uses both sodium chloride and magnesium chloride. "
Uh, no, I'm not overlooking anything.
Municipalities on the East Coast have been using a combination of salt and other chlorides for years to gain better melting capabilities in low temperatures.
I can't see that.... Oh *expletive deleted*it. Every brake line on every car in my community just burst...
On a more serious note, this morning around 5:15 I heard a loud bang. I figured Seren was doing something so I told her to settle down and went back to sleep.
As I was getting up my neighbor texts me a photo of a minivan in his side yard rammed into one of the nicer ornamental cherry trees we HAD (emphasis on past tense) in the community.
Police come, guy gives some BS story that the police don't buy.
So, they let him go home, get the car squared away, and go talk to him again... where they get the REAL story of what happened...
Turns out his son was driving, apparently going way too fast (obviously) on a narrow residential street, hit the curb and went down the bank and into the tree. REALLY smashed up the front end, blew a bunch of air bags. Probably totaled the van.
It certainly totaled the tree. Ripped it out by the roots. But, fortunately it was there because had the tree not stopped the van, it was heading right for my neighbors fireplace.
Anyway, turns out the son was... driving Dad's van, on a revoked license, because he had previous drunken driving convictions. No word on whether son was drunk and driving again, but let's do the math on that...